Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Mailbag

From: Kevin Cronin Subject: Re: Fandom Hey Bob, Back in the Roaring Eighties, REO tour manager, now my personal manager, Tom Consolo was famous for his ubiquitous “roll of hundreds.” I once kicked and shattered an automatic plate glass door in the Little Rock airport, because it came too close to hitting me. (Of course, […]

More Oasis

If you don’t get on the gravy train, you’re a hater. Oasis played five dates in America, in large venues. Let’s just call it 80k a night, even though that’s excessive. That means that… 400,000 people went to see Oasis. In a country of 340.1 million. Could they have sold more tickets? ABSOLUTELY! The Oasis […]

Overrated/Underrated-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday September 6th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Pretzel Logic

1 I never knew Warren Haynes covered this, never mind INXS, both live, the work of a band that famously had left the road, whose songs were thought to be unperformable. You can only find the INXS version on YouTube, and I don’t really recommend it, but the Haynes version? Actually, my favorite Haynes cover […]